This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (until 1 August) Henry Paget (from 1 August) Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Moore
Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington (until 27 August); Richard Watson (from 20 October) Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley Bishop of St Davids – John Warren
Events
March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General. 12 April - In the Battle of the Saintes, the British fleet defeat the French after a campaign in which Admiral Sir Thomas Foley has played a major part. 27 September - Francis Homfray leases a mill from Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa ironworks. (Under the terms of a new Parliamentary Act, Bacon, as an MP, is disqualified from holding government munitions contracts.) William Owen Pughe and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn) meet in London. David Davis (Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.
Arts and literature
New books
William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, etc. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770 Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1 John Walters - Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry
Music
William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)
Births
20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845) 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857) unknown date - William Morgan, evangelical clergyman (died 1858)
Deaths
March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79
27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71
15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
25 August - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville November - John Parry, harpist, 72? 9 December - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 73